Businessmen, politicians and ordinary people across the poor world often blame western moneymen for their ills.
Failure to liberalise farm trade would be a big blow to the poor world.
But with war, repression and economic collapse, push factors are much stronger in the poor world.
Comfortable workers in the rich world are forced to compete with hungrier ones in the poor world.
If the people of Luxembourg had a low value add then they would be poor world workers, not rich.
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In their sly, shiny packets, they invaded the poor world as insidiously as the disease they were meant to prevent.
The currency is accepted in vast swathes of the rich world and quite a bit of the poor world too.
Both had been under pressure over the Springboks' poor World Cup campaign which ended with a quarter-final defeat by New Zealand.
Rooney has been out of form this season after a poor World Cup and has faced allegations about his private life.
Even if the poor world signs up fully to the WTO's existing disciplines, that might not satisfy some in the rich world.
If they succeed, India could yet be the country that proves the Internet can benefit the poor world, and not just the rich.
At those sorts of levels of overall economic damage, the impact on the rich world as well as the poor world is huge.
Stand back, Dr Pangloss: such demographic change still brings new issues and new problems, notably of ageing populations, even in the poor world.
Up stepped Alec Stewart, who had relinquished the England captaincy four years ago after a poor World Cup, to take the reins once more.
The starving move to three squares a day, the naked can buy clothes, the homeless gain shelter as a result of the poor world getting rich.
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The terms developing, third and poor world will be used interchangeably to refer to emerging economies, even though many of them are well on their way to joining the developed world.
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Worried about such draining of brains, in 2010 members of the World Health Organisation signed a resolution to curb the recruitment of doctors from the poor world to the rich one.
And measures can and should be taken to ensure that the future economic growth of the poor world, if that happy outcome occurs, does not unduly exacerbate the problem of global warming.
And bringing in the efficient logistics chains of the industrialised world to the poor world is going to be one of the ways that we provide enough edible food for those increased numbers.
An infusion of foreign talent into a country with a faltering professional league and poor World Cup performances has paid dividends over the long term in knowledge-sharing and experience, contributing to revivals of both professional league and World Cup play.
Rooney came into this season on the back of a poor World Cup in South Africa with the cause believed to be a lack of fitness because of an ankle injury suffered in a Champions League match against Bayern Munich in March.
Historically platinum has had a price premium over gold, but that changed around late September last year when a poor world economic outlook pinched industrial metals like platinum and buyers sought gold for its safe-haven status or its role as an alternative currency.
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Although developing new diagnostic techniques is cheap compared with developing new drugs (largely because they do not have to undergo such comprehensive and expensive clinical trials), it is frequently not cheap enough to create tests that will be commercially viable if their only market is in the poor world.
Their poor-world sisters, however, do not have things so easy.
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That poor Third World farmer out in the boonies gets more value from a weekly text telling him local sorghum prices than we do from gigabytes of web surfing.
This might be seen as ironic in the light of western interest in such things as drug-donation programmes (in which drug companies give away their products in countries which cannot afford to buy them) and vaccine-purchase funds (which guarantee sales to firms that come up with effective new vaccines for poor-world diseases).
If you care about the poor of this world then buy things made by poor people in poor countries.
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The thesis was true in 1990: then, over 90% of the world's poor lived in the world's poorest places.
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Guatemala has one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.
As, indeed, I do celebrate this way in which the poor of the world are getting richer.
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